Week 11 Blog

Lecture Summary:

Building Knowledge

Datum – fact or proposition

Information – collection of facts or data that relate to each other

Knowledge – sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered or learned

Data is factual, non judgemental, non inferential, transient, no meaning or value
Information is summative, relational, dimensional, permanent, has meaning and uncertain value

Knowledge is inferential, experiential, judgmental, subjective, and very valuable

The importance of data, information, and knowledge is invaluable. Data is a collection of valid unbiased data, which is representative of something. Information is relational, meaningful and informative. Knowledge is a logical conclusion to a particular topic.

Data is individual facts or propositions each with their own limited value, information is a collection of facts that establishes trends and draws results, and knowledge is how human experience and understanding of a topic is portrayed.

Data is raw information, information is data that has been given meaning by relational connection, and knowledge is an appropriate collection of information with the intent to be useful.

Strategies for assignment work

Workshop Write Up:

Browse the following webpage http://www.success.co.il/is/dik.html find a online dictionary to retrieve definitions for the terms, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.

Using the website dictionary.com retrieved definitions for the following terms

Data – a single piece of fact, information, or a statistic related to a particular topic

Information – knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or event

Knowledge – a fact or piece of information that is known to an individual is said to be Knowledge

Wisdom – scholarly knowledge or learning

Outline the relationship between data, information, and knowledge

If an individual can understand the relationship between data, information, and knowledge they will have learnt the most effective way of utilising the information that they are learning within their chosen topic.

Types of organisations that collect information from their users are Banks, myspace, magazine subscriptions to ensure data integrity, and a means of contacting an individual for any reason deemed neccesary

Summary of Readings:

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom

Systems theorist Russell Ackoff has stated that the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories, data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.

Data represents raw information, it exists and has no significance beyond itself

Information is data that is given meaning by relational connection

Knowledge is the appropriate collection of information, which its intent is to be useful as for this knowledge to be retained by an individual it is necessary for it to be useful to ensure it is retained

Understanding is the analytical process by which an individual begins to deconstruct and comprehend the newly acquired information to convert it to knowledge

Wisdom is a combination of the previous 4 categories in an effort to help the individual understand fully what was previously not known, and how to put that new understanding to use in a practical situation

Information Literacy Tutorial

This is not an article. It is an online tutorial that gives lessons on how to write essays other papers. It also has quizes to help people understand the skills they have learnt